Comment by keeper77

Besides running fast, half the challenge is making sure your side has your flag.

Comment by Alphanerd

Completed as a mage, it was one of those games where we were up 2-0 and the alliance had given up. I managed to run straight through get both speed boosts and blunk? blank? the entire way.

67 seconds.

You can keep track of this achievement and the timer will start once you pick up the flag.

Comment by defektunge

This is much easier than you'd think, actually. I got it as a hunter by grabbing the flag, heading out through the tunnel (no speed boost) and running straight across midfield with Aspect of the Cheetah (other classes can just bring a hunter to use Aspect of the Pack for the same effect), in through our tunnel (again, no speed boost) and delivering.

Doable by any class without any need for rocket boots, swiftness potions, nifty stopwatch, or anything like that. Though I suppose it doesn't hurt to use them if you have them.

Comment by HolgerDK

Tried this today as a warrior running undisturbed from alliance flag room to horde flagroom with both speedbuffs - didnt get it.

Comment by Lambert002

Luck (you don't have time to be struck while using cheetah, any dazing or movement slowing effect will result in failure)

You will have only a few seconds to spare, if any. So make sure to take tunnels and run through the middle. 100% speed boosts will give you time to take longer routes or even counteract movement slowing effect.

Comment by jaxsonbateman

This sounds silly, but it doesn't actually say "grab the flag from the enemy flag room". Has anyone tried having someone else drop it just before a cap, 'grabbing' it themselves, and the capping within a few seconds?

Personally I don't think it would work, but the wording makes it possible.

Comment by wrathdivine

Or will I have to wait until a higher level to get help from another player? (Hunter?)

I have almost all the other achievements. Here is what I have left on my lock...

Warsong Gultch Veteran (76/100 - Its a grind but do-able in 10-19 WSG) Warsong Expedience (I know this is possible in 10-19 WSG because i got it on my Druid....bleh) Save the Day (I don't see why this is not possible at level 19 - Never done it before) Warsong Outrider (Revered 9605/21000 for Exalted - Very do-able in 10-19 WSG)

So how about it...can anyone confirm that this can be done by a level 19 warlock (under ANY circumstances)?

****UPDATE 12-31-2008*******

I can confirm that a level 19 can get this achievement, and every other achievement needed to get {Master of Warsong Gulch} because I completed them all today. ;-)

Comment by Enthorn

You'll need to carefully use your blinks, lest you blink and travel nowhere. Blink tends to bug out the most in the tunnel. I'd recommend blinking immediately when you pick up the flag, towards the tunnel. Run down and hopefully the Speed buff is up. Pick that up and head out the tunnel.

When you make it completely out of the tunnel, immediately use your Swiftness Potion after the Speed buff has worn off. Once you are completely out of the tunnel and on the grass, you'll want to blink whenever the cooldown is up. If you blink before you exit the tunnel, you run the risk of going nowhere. There are small steps leading into (and out of) the tunnels that are elevated. These screw up when you try to blink over them. Don't try it.

It will certainly help to be a Frost mage for this achievement. Keep Ice Barrier up at all times. Points in Shattered Barrier will help freeze anyone who springs on you. And if you're really up for it, you can respec to something like 0/27/44. You'll pick up Blast Wave and Blazing Speed to use alongside Ice Barrier and Water Elemental.

Blazing Speed has no internal cooldown, but it also assumes that you're being constantly attacked. Note that ranged attacks (i.e., hunters) will trigger it. Glyph of Icy Veins may also be of some benefit.

If you see any enemies in front of you while traveling across, pop up water elemental and use the ranged frost nova. Its range is 45 yards, so you'll have plenty of distance to freeze them as you run by. Between blinking, blazing speed, ice barrier, and ice armor, you should not have to worry about anyone on you. One of the real benefits of Blazing Speed is that it can trigger from Concussive Shot, thereby removing the daze effect, and giving you the 50% movement speed increase.

Happy flag running!

Update: I actually just did the achievement for the first time using the strategy I listed above. Immediately upon getting the flag, I popped a Swiftness Potion and ran to the hallway. I then blinked down and picked up the Speed Boost. I continued running down and when I made it out of the tunnel, I blinked again. I reached our tunnel with 25 seconds left. I did not have Boar's Speed or the Tireless Starflare meta gem for the 8% run speed increase. Nor I did not have any speed boost from a hunter's Aspect of the Pack (which would cancel out the enchant/meta anyway). I only got one of the speed boosts from the hallway. And I never got hit, so Blazing Speed never procced. Here's a recap:

In short, you'll be blinking, at the most, 5 times over the course of the 75 seconds it takes to run the flag if you use it every cooldown. This will gain you 125 yards. At 100% run speed, you'll be covering 6.33 yards per second, which means blinking is saving you 19.74 seconds. This falls in line with how I was able to reach the flag in 72 seconds without any additional constant run speed boost (enchant, meta gem, or aspect of the pack) and without a second speed boost.

Comment by Grakkh

Heh, got this by "accident" today on my hunter, without trying. Simply picked up flag, Cheetah on, ran down the tunnel, past midfield with a slight curve to avoid running into a druid (whom I still took some instant shots at while on the move), up our own tunnel, picked up speed boost buff, cap, done.

Comment by Enthorn

Perhaps people need to read about pronouns, antecedents, and ambiguity. "Your" and "their" in his sentence ("making sure your side has their flag") are never actually defined. Is your referring to the Horde or the Alliance side? Is their referring to the Horde or the Alliance side? This isn't Thottbot. I shouldn't have to bang my head against the wall when trying to decipher comments.

If we are to assume that "your" and "their" in keeper77's comment refers to the same side, why can't we assume the same thing in the text for the achievement Save The Day? We can't because each noun has its antecedent. "Their" is defined by "opposing team." Consider if we were to reword it, how confusing it would be:

Kill the enemy who is carrying your flag in their flag room while their flag is at their base, within their control.

Wait, what?

"besides running fast, half the challenge is making sure your side has their flag."

Comment by Sabmiqys

Did this one by being a prep-specced rogue (two sprints) with a Free Action Potion (no one could CC me during my run across the field.

Comment by bhortog

Just completed as a warrior - luck had a lot to do with it...took the tunnel and got the speed boost then popped a swiftness potion midfield, managing to pass through unscathed, up the tunnel then got the second speed boost. Didn't have the timer up so don't know how close it was.

Comment by Stormcloak

Just got this on my gnome mage without much effort. Paladin in flag room so I frost nova'd him grabbed flag, blinked to tunnel, grabbed speed boost, blinked once out on the field whenever CD was up (I do NOT have blink gylph or talents to lower CD), and blinked once more at alliance tunnel after I saw speed boost was not there.

Gear that could affect me being able to run that fast:Tireless Skyflare Diamond (minor run speed)Tuskar's vitality enchant

Remember as a gnome you can racial Escape Artist out of crowd control and the 49k Honor Medallions help also.

Also if you are spec'd in Arcane to have the Slow Spell (like I am) know that you don't have to be facing your targets to cast. So you can be running away and still CC'ing them.

Comment by Metak

I did it on 10 vs 0 in WSG, we were joking about having 5 minutes to cap 3 flags. We raced to flag and I got it. I just ran straight back to base and took one speed power-up. With the fact that i had Pursuit of Justice = +15% speed.

Comment by Rageragerage

just did as a rogue, easy as pie if you have 1x swifteness potion, 2x 100% speed boost, hunter friend with aspect of the pack and sprint! perfect conditions and i got it in 58 secs

Comment by Doyle

All you need is:

- Minor Speed Enchant/Meta- Both Speed Boosts

Finished in 71 seconds.

Comment by Zeghart

Did It with My Level 29 Rogue, Not hard at all.

Flag cap - Tunnel Speed Buff - Sprint, and then run for the base. You don't even need both Speed Buff. The Rogue Sprint can be easily replaced with a Swiftness potion, and that's all. Of course, you must be lucky in midfield, but if It's All clear, That's All You need. Insignia of The Horde can help, If some huntard/bubbleboy come in the way.

Capped in 68 seconds, unfortunately for the Allies.

Comment by Dramfiolz

If you're at +15% run speed (pally with Pursuit of Justice), you can do this with time to spare if you get one speed boot and use a swiftness pot. I lost a few seconds when I did it because I got sapped in the tunnel and fumbled the keybind for trinket, but still made it.

Comment by nataku87

As a Death Knight you can use Unholy Presence, grab the flag and get the speed boots on both sides.

You can also use Swiftness Potions if one of the boots are not available.

I did it on my first attempt in a 10vs5 WSG game where interuption was not very likely.

Comment by Vivic

Comment by unuroboros

Got it on my 80 Priest, Disc (not Body and Soul). Minor Speed enchant on boots. Speed boost on the near side, straight run through mid (got some help with distractions), and Swiftness Potion. No speed boost on far side.

Comment by Andreander

68 seconds with Aspect of the Cheetah (on/off depending on Alliance), one speed buff from Alliance tunnel, long way around the tree in the middle.

Get a Hunter with Pack and you can do this without any problem at all...

Comment by daaajM

I've made a video for non - rogue's, shamman's or druid's. How to cap the flag in less then 54 second's

It worked for me 3 times in a row... and then stopped... I have no idea why. I tried it once, unbuffed, with the skelly And small - didnt work. Buffed myself (fort, spirit, shadow prot, inner fire) along with small and skelly and it worked.

Comment by Spectrallink

This is what I did on my level 49 Priest.

One of us distracted, I got the flag, went tunnel, got speed power-up.

As soon as I reached tunnel, a hunter assisted me, put Aspect of the Pack on, and I got the speed power-up from our tunnel. =)

Comment by Ash2412

Just did this as a 19 druid, only got one of the speed boosts in tunnel, had the speed increase enchant, and a single swiftness potion.

Comment by Magicwannabe

Just tried this today on my mage. I got the first speed boost, used blink the entire way, had quite some time before I got to the second speed boost in our tunnel, I didn't need it, but I took it anyway.. I ended up getting to our flag, and it wouldn't cap. There was a couple people fighting there, but I couldn't cap the flag even though our flag was still at our base. Then a hunter ran up, grabbed our flag, and ran off leaving me with no achievement.

So I dunno if it's bugged or what, but yeah it didn't work. This was my last achievement for all the warsong gulch achievements, so I'm pretty dissapointed. :(

Comment by KenpachiZ420

I grabbed the flag on my 49 rogue, I was stunned by a warrior as I had grabbed the speed boos in the tunnel. I trinket-ed out. Then I used sprint, as sprint was wearing off I used a swiftness potion at the bottom of our tunnel. No speed boost in tunnel. I capped and got achievement. Besides the initial stun I encountered no alliance.

Comment by mediter

With and + Shammies get a little bit of an advantage on this achievement.

Comment by scangazi

Just did it on my priest, Used Inner Will all the way, 1x Swiftness Pot and 1x Speed buff, got slowed 1 time but insta dispelled, still had 2-3 seconds remaining

Comment by Magmarrax

I achieved this with an arcane mage. Got the speed boosts from both tunnels, and mid-field I just spammed blink, and the improved blink talent helped greatly.

Comment by JeremyAvalon

If you're setting up a premade to get this achievement, bring an 85 priest or two for Leap of Faith. You can get pulled through the middle of the map in no time and potentially avoid all of the defense, even if they've turned the midfield into a war zone.

Comment by Hmmster

Just did this as a hunter, without even thinking of getting it.I capped the flag and used Aspect of the Cheetah through the entire corridor, I took the speed buff thing in it too. When I came out, I hit the first alliance I saw and disengaged back. I then switched to Aspect of the Fox and continued running a bit to the side, not through the middle at all.When I was a bit closer to our tunnel, another Alliance Mage started casting Frostbolt on me. I scattered him, used Disengage back, and went back into Cheetah.I then continued in cheetah all the way to our flag room, taking the second speed buff on the way.

Comment by dragonmatte

Also retri palas have a 15% speed buff, which could prove usefull

Comment by Aglaia

Seriously - I believe it is easier to get Warsong Outrider than this achievement for most classes.The time that you could enter WSG and fight a 10 vs 5 (or even 10 vs 0) battle is over now for some years. Are there any statistics how many player got this achievement in the last year (and which class they had)?

Comment by Cilliandrew

Got this on my 85 Troll Frost Mage, today. Being specced into IMPROVED BLINK in the Arcane Tree really helped, i think.

Other then that, it was a case of my team completely dominating. I had a pretty clear run from their Flag Room to ours, blinking everytime it was off cooldown.

Got the Ironman achievement in the same BG. Never thought i would get these on my mage!

It was really all thanks to a dominating effort by the team.

Comment by gozcubukcu

Got this today as a warlock.I placed a portal by the our tunnel. When I picked up the flag I was able to use the first power up when it ran out I used a swiftness potion. And Used soulburn demonic teleport and moved in the tunnel. Got slowed once by a arcane mage but used trinket and spell lock on him. I was able to cap the flag with 4 secs remaining.

Comment by Aleflusher

Got this by surprise today on my shammy. Grabbed the flag, straight to the tunnel, hit the speedup in the tunnel, then as soon as that ran out I used Spirit Walk. I had a clear straight shot right to our flag room, did not use the tunnel speedup on our end. So, you can do this as a shaman pretty easily as long as you have no enemies slowing you down. If you hit the tunnel speedup on both ends you can probably do it even with a little bit of interference.

Comment by Novabe

Provided the opposing side doesn't have your flag and is busy acting up in mid-field, on a lvl 40-something priest this is so easy it's silly. Bubble up, keep dropping feathers, and if you time them just right (not difficult to do, either) you can speed through the entire field untouched. it's fairly ridiculous and easiest when you are lower level as the game play tends to be less focused on winning and more on wasting time in the field.

Note: I was unable to get this for years on any toon at max. level. Low level with any speed abilities is the easiest route. Now I see why druids are so reluctant to sit back and wait for the healer(s)!